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swapping hard drives
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:10 pm
by blade_146
A coworker wants me to put in a new hard drive for him and I was thinking about tossing out his old one cause its slow and old. My question is, how do i copy the entire contents of the old drive onto the new drive without losing anything? Is there a program i need to use or something? I want it to copy everything and be bootable when I unhook the old one. This can be done right? I just ordered for him today so I have a few days. Can anyone help a brotha out?
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:13 pm
by FlyingPenguin
If you bought a retail drive it'll come with a disk utility that will copy the contents of the old drive to the new one.
Otherwise you can use a program like Norton Ghost.
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:38 pm
by blade_146
its an oem WD 20 gig. I have a copy of ghost here. How do you use it?
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:11 pm
by wvjohn
load ghost on the old drive after yo have formatted the new drive and the new drive is installed on the system as a slave > it runs in dos > start it up and follow the menu
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 11:27 pm
by FlyingPenguin
With both drives connected and recognized by BIOS, boot to DOS (use a Win98 boot floppy). Run Ghost. Ghost is a standalone DOS app - you can run it from a floppy or from the drive. The ghost executable is called GhostPE.exe (in the personal edition) or Ghost.exe (in the professional version).
Select copy drive to drive.
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 10:03 am
by blade_146
ok so after its copied i just unhook the old drive, set the new drive to master and I'm done? sounds easy enough. thanks guys